Capercaillie Mating Dance
Signed Gustaf G Appelbom and dated Stockholm Anno 1689. Gouache 27.5 x 18 cm. Old gilded frame.
Bertil Rapp, "Djur och stilleben i karolinskt måleri", 1951, compare ill. pl 68-69.
After David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl's painting "Tjäderlek" (1675) in the collections at Drottningholm Palace, Uppland. (Drottningholm 646)